Thursday, 8 December 2016

Rotten Casket - Emerged from Beyond

ROTTEN CASKET - Emerged from Beyond (UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT - CD 2016)

Some weeks ago I was happy to
get Rotten Casket’s demo tape “Consumed by Filth” (which was a nice gift from a
good friend, cheers Mr. Rai-mondo haha). Damn, I did like this demo a lot and
immediately putted this Dutch band on a list of some of the best old school
Swedish sounding (but not of Swedish origin haha) bands these days. But it was
pissing me off that I couldn’t find “Simply Rotten Death”, which is another
demo Rotten Casket did in 2015. Underground Movement then came with help and
released a compilation CD with both demos on it! Damn killer job! “Emerged from
Beyond” is limited to 300 copies, but I managed to buy one, so I am happy yet
again and very pleased to own a copy. Now I can play both Rotten Casket demos
and enjoy this killer band even more.

From these two releases, I
definitely like “Consumed by Filth” more. It’s such a fantastic demo, with a
bunch of great songs and some truly incredible riffs and melodies that all fans
of Swedish death metal in the vein of Dismember, Desultory, Goddefied and new
bands like Entrails and Revel in Flesh will love deeply. I cannot say
absolutely anything bad about this effort, although I am sure that moaners will
say that it’s nothing original and they see no point in playing this type of
music yet again. Fuck them. I love this sound, I love this demo and such songs
like “In Search of the Perfect Skin”, “Unknown Graves”, “Emerged From Beyond”
and “Culpable Homicide” are real anthems of OSSDM. Absolutely fantastic stuff.

“Simply Rotten Death” demo is
also a nice effort, maybe a bit less effective as the other one, but just good
and solid effort yet again. It may be lacking those truly memorable and
insanely good songs with riffs that give you goose skin, but on the other hand
it’s harsher and more aggressive death metal. Songs like “Falling Skies” and “Leeches
of the Cross” (this one is a nice death doom masterpiece) do standout on this
demo and deliver a lot of goodness. And it all ends with Gorefest’s classic
demo tune “Tangled in Gore”, which has been nicely covered. I love such covers,
of old death metal demo songs or old albums that not many people may know. This
one is sweet. Very sweet.

Rotten Casket surely belongs
to my top bands from this style of music. They definitely deserve your
attention and I can now only hope that they’ll deliver more such goodness in
upcoming months.